Hadise voted sexiest woman of Eurovision 2009

She may have only finished fourth in the contest, but it appears that Turkey's representative succeeded in making quite a few hearts go 'Düm Tek Tek' after all. For the second year in a row it's been an incredibly tight result - in last year's poll Kalomira edged out Ani Lorak by just one vote, and this time round Hadise held off the challenge of enigmatic Estonian singer Sandra Nurmsalu by just three votes. Here are the final results -

1 Hadise Açıkgöz (Turkey) 21%
2 Sandra Nurmsalu (Estonia) 20%
3 Aysel Teymurzadeh (Azerbaijan) 9%
4 Jade Ewen (United Kingdom) 9%
5 Elena Gheorghe (Romania) 7%
6 Jóhanna Guðrún Jónsdóttir (Iceland) 7%
7 Karoliina Kallio (Finland) 3%
8 Soraya Arnelas (Spain) 3%
9 Chiara Siracusa (Malta) 2%
10 Svetlana Loboda (Ukraine) 2%
11 Kejsi Tola (Albania) 1%
12 Marilin Kongo (Estonia) 1%
13 Lidia Kopania (Poland) 1%
14 Mann Helstein (Estonia) **
= Sinéad Mulvey (Ireland) **
16 Anastasiya Prykhodko (Russia) **
= Mari Möldre (Estonia) **
= Martina Majerle (Slovenia) **
= Christina Metaxa (Cyprus) **
= Andrea Šušnjara (Croatia) **
= Daniela Varela (Portugal) **
= Noa (Israel) **
= Susanne Georgi (Andorra) **
24 Patricia Kaas (France) **
= Johanna Mängel (Estonia) **
= Nela Pocisková (Slovakia) **
= Mira Awad (Israel) **
= Inga Arshakyan (Armenia) **
= Malena Ernman (Sweden) **
= Andrea Demirović (Montenegro) **

(** - less than 1% but more than zero)

337 votes were cast in total.

Intriguingly, there was a huge surge of support for Aysel Teymurzadeh after the final was broadcast on Saturday night. My strong impression is that, if only post-final votes had been counted, she would have won convincingly.

Finally, apologies for my inadvertent mistake in leaving out the Portuguese accordion player. She might well have been a contender!

Ines voted all-time sexiest Estonian singer at Eurovision

Our Estonian poll has closed, with the nation's 2000 representative Ines claiming a narrow win over the previous year's entrant Evelin Samuel. Here are the final results in full -

1 Ines 35%
2 Evelin Samuel 29%
3 Sahlene 17%
4 Gerli Padar 11%
5 Sandra Oxenryd 5%

Bear in mind that the poll covered all those female singers and girlbands who have represented Estonia in the Eurovision Song Contest, rather than those who are Estonian citizens. Therefore Vanilla Ninja were excluded, while Swedes Sandra Oxenryd and Sahlene were both on the list.

Featured : Vanilla Ninja

Vanilla Ninja are a girlband from Estonia. They were the overwhelming favourites of the public when they competed in Eurolaul - the Estonian national selection for Eurovision - with the song Club Kung-Fu, but were overlooked by the international jury of musical 'experts' who made the final decision. Strangely they were then invited to compete for Switzerland in the 2005 competition, which at least had the advantage of allowing the Estonian public to vote for them in the televote! They did so in droves, and the group's rock track Cool Vibes finished in a creditable eighth position on the final leaderboard.

You can visit Vanilla Ninja's official site, complete with photos and videos, here. Please note the site will first appear in Estonian, but there is an option in the top right-hand corner to switch to English.

Estonian Eurovision poll

It's still a couple of months before all the entries will be known and we can open our 'sexiest woman of Eurovision 2009' poll, but in the meantime we'll have some other Eurovision-related polls to whet your appetite. We're starting today by asking you who you think is the sexiest singer or girlband to compete for Estonia since the country first appeared in the contest in 1994.

Among the contenders are Ines, who famously performed in a green cowboy hat in 2000. She started as favourite to win the competition but ultimately finished fourth. Others are the Swedish imports Sahlene (who controversially carried the hopes of the country when it hosted the contest in 2002) and Sandra Oxenryd. Also there is Maarja, who has the rare distinction of having sung in the Eurovision in two consecutive years.

Vote wisely!